Check it out: Chavez library reopens

3:24 AM,
Dec. 3, 2012

At left, Linda Schuurmann Baker, program officer for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a major donor, and city Library Director Elizabeth Martinez at the Sunday re-opening of the Cesar Chavez Library after a $3 million renovation.

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Several hundred people gathered Sunday for the official re-opening of the city's Cesar Chavez Library in east Salinas.

Despite the rainy weather the opening had a festival atmosphere as members of the public examined the $3.9 million renovation of the Williams Road library - a library that has been closed for more than a year while under construction.

The facility now features more spacious and airy interiors, a digital media lab, a ...